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Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler

CHAPTER XIV
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His wife became insane at the sight of her butchered and dying husband, thrown into the door by these brutal wretches, and was, in that condition, taken to her brother in Michigan.

All this was testified to, with every _minutia_ of detail, before the Investigating Committee.
The border papers were aflame with appeals to the "Law and Order" party to go over into Kansas and wipe out the pestiferous Free State men, who set at naught the Territorial Legislature.

The following sample of these appeals we extract from a speech made by David R.
Atchison, at Platte City: They held an election on the 15th of last month, and they intend to put the machinery of a State in motion on the 4th of March, "_I say, prepare yourselves; go over there_.

And if they attempt to drive you out, then drive them out.

Fifty of you with your shot-guns are worth two hundred and fifty of them with their Sharpe's rifles." Meanwhile a great cry of wrongs and outrages against the Free State men had filled the whole North, and Congress could not choose, but had to pay attention to it.


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